Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ge Bai is professor of accounting & health policy at Johns Hopkins. Using data from Kythera Labs, a healthcare data technology ...

As a strategy for achieving gender equality, gender mainstreaming involves a process of incremental change in policies, strategies and activities. The long term objective is that attention to gender ...

Hormone replacement therapies have long been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use by cisgender patients, such as women who take estrogen when going through menopause. Now, for the ...

The Cass Review -- of which an interim report changed youth gender-affirming care services in England -- has been published in full, concluding that there's no high-quality evidence supporting puberty ...

This story was updated at 12:30 on 5/2/2025 to add additional comment from the Department of Health and Human Services. On Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services published a 400-page ...

Gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of their gender. Gender expression refers to how people may convey their gender to others through behavior and appearance. Gender exists on a broad ...

In 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) accepted a formal request to initiate a national coverage analysis for “gender-reassignment surgery.” When making these coverage ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. One often hears today that gender is a social construct. The idea is ...

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